Today the Memorial Christmas Tree was put up at the MHSU waiting area on the 2nd floor of the Oceanside Health Centre (Urgent Care). We encourage those who have lost a loved one to Substance Harms to come add their person’s name on a decoration and place on the tree […]
Advocate Beverley Planes says the system has failed people who use drugs. BY MICK SWEETMAN The Discourse – Read the full source article here – Nanaimo Community Action Team coordinator Beverley Planes says the overdose death of a man in a washroom at the Nanaimo Regional General Hospital’s emergency room happened because […]
By Curtis Blandy From Victoria Buzz. Read the source article here A group of activists are planning a protest encampment for the Victoria courthouse in response to the recent displacement of the unhoused community within the city. Local activists, known as the Victoria Liberation Front (VLF), are planning to set […]
The district sent out notices Friday saying the Victoria Native Friendship Centre would expand to offer 33 beds, rather than its usual 25, during extreme weather by Andrew A. Duffy at the Times Colonist. Read the full source article here The District of Saanich — under fire this week for […]
‘This is an example of why services like this are needed,’ doctor says by Cindy E. Harnett from the Times Colonist – Read the source article here A patient fatally overdosed at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital on Tuesday shortly after a nearby pop-up service to prevent such deaths had closed, […]
By contrast to Parksville’s non-existent emergency cold weather response plan, this is from Emergency Management Cowichan
Organizers were forced to move overdose prevention sites from hospital property in Victoria and Nanaimo after Island Health shut them down by Michael John Lo and Carla Wilson, Times Colonist. Read the full source article Doctors and volunteers received a frosty welcome from Island Health security guards on Monday when […]
OCAT Monthly Meetings are held every Third Tuesday of the month from 1:00 pm to 3:00. Join Zoom Meetinghttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/88606024399?pwd=VK0rGtcbRsaa0F6kmV5H3gp4Pb0eae.1 Meeting ID: 886 0602 4399Passcode: 907444 This Month, November our guest speaker will be Jarrold Paetkau, pastor with Manna Homeless Ministries. Also will feature updates on the Treatment Centre, and updates […]
Global review finds ‘lack of high-quality evidence to support or refute’ involuntary treatment By Mike Crawley · CBC News – Read the full article here As the toxic drug crisis continues to claim thousands of lives each year — fuelling perceptions that existing measures are failing — the notion of involuntary treatment is gaining political traction […]
Local governments’ human rights obligations Homeless encampments are increasingly common across British Columbia. These encampmentsare a result of structural conditions, including the failure of all levels of government to upholdthe right to adequate housing. They must be understood in the context of historical and ongoingsystems of discrimination and colonization. Read […]
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